2019–12–09
Final-year students from Linköpings University’s Carl Malmstens furniture studies course embarked on a joint project with Nola. The collaboration explores how the built environment, through the installation of temporary spaces, can create new potentials for leisure, recreation and well-being. Frida Erson Lundström, the course coordinator and lecturer, explains: “Land surface is, as is well known, a valuable asset, so finding creative solutions for a seasonal uses of urban spaces is highly topical. The students are approaching this project with exciting ideas ranging from the UN’s global development goals to small pocket parks.”
Henrik Edlund, CEO of Nola, comments on the role that public space design can play. “It is interesting to consider how cities, throughout history, have been designed in response to traffic flow,” he says. “Now we want streets and car parks to respond to residents’ needs to an increasing extent. We see that agile solutions are needed. These solutions should be created with quality design, good ergonomics and sustainable materials that can be removed and reused year after year.”
Over the years, Nola has fostered many collaborations with young designers and students in similar ways. We hope that this project with Linköpings University’s Carl Malmstens furniture studies course will result in one or more pop-up solutions that we can realise in the years to come.
Nolas award-winning Kaskad armchair, by prominent designer Björn Dahlström, has been selected to be part of the exhibition "The Form of Success - Design as a Corporate Strategy” at the Red Dot Design Museum in Xiamen, China.
Nola's lounger Cushy is awarded Winner of the 2019 Archiproducts Design Awards. Product design by Gripner & Hägglund for Nola.
Nola, in collaboration with Sweden Urban Arena, will be exhibiting products designed for shopping centers and urban areas.
Nola’s new memorial markers respect historic places and honour special people. They were installed at the memorial grove at the ancient Alstadhaug Cemetery, which received local and national awards in Norway during 2019.
On October 1st, Henrik Edlund took over as the new CEO of Nola Industrier AB.
Nola is exhibiting products with a focus on improved living habitats at Elmia Park in Jönköping, between the 24-26th of September.
Nola is exhibiting in the Swedish Design Pavilion during the London Design Fair, September 19th - 22nd, showing design news and classics.
Nola teamed up with Castellum to create an outdoor workspace on the rooftop of their Koppartorget TRE office development in Västerås, Sweden.
Nola has furnished the terrace at the award-winning Biomedicum at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Interior by Nyréns Architecture.
Nola was asked to provide furniture for the 2017 Swedish-Norwegian pavilion at the world-famous Cannes Film Festival. We included eco-friendly designs from Nina Jobs’ Rocky series and Gro planters by Mia Cullin.
We are proud to exhibit together with the magazine Tidskriften RUM in a group exhibition on the 9th to 14th of April at Bagni Misteriosi Milan, during Milan Design Week.
Nola participates in Swedish Design Moves and exhibits at the exhibition "HEMMA Gone Wild" during Milan Design Week.